Do you think my teacher was being too tough or just preparing us?

[Sakura Michiko]

So last semester I took physiology lecture and lab because it is required for nursing majors.I passed the lecture class with an A and the lab with a B. The majority of my class was either nursing majors like me or majoring in something else medical. A lot of people in my lecture class felt as if our teacher made the class too complex because all of her test was extremely hard expect the final.Some of my peers didn't like how she made the majority of the test scenario based and critical thinking. They felt she should have made the test definition based( the final was definition based lol). I actually liked her test though because I'm going to be a nurse and we have to deal with different types of scenarios and I heard from many people that entered the nursing program say the test are formulated the same way as her's.

Some people even tried to report our lecture teacher to the deen because they felt the test were too hard even though our teacher would always ask us if we understand, she always gave us small bonus assignments, and told us to come to her office or email her if anyone was confused. She even turned our third test into a quiz because it was a short answer test and most of the class didn't understand how to study for a short answer biology test and she gave an extra credit assignment(a 5-7 page research paper) that would replace our lowest grade but only 10 of us did it.

Did my lecture teacher sound like she was too tough or was she really preparing us

 

[The Great Second Hokage]

As a fellow nursing major I can honestly say the medical field is lead by critical thinkers. Reporting a teacher for testing on the material he/she saw fit is absolutely childish. I'm not the best student in the world but people like that need to learn that this isn't high school anymore. No one is going to spoon feed you **** anymore. Especially for nurses, critical thinking is key. That teacher deserves a medal for preparing his students. Most people expect psych to be an easy A glad to see one professor is trying to change the mold.

 

[Chikombo]

I think most teachers at universities around the world are extra tough, I don't know if it's right or wrong but people drops out because of it.

 

[Callypigia]

Of course not. It's called ethics and standards of practice. This isn't flipping burgers. Education in the medical profession need to be difficult to weed out the feeble-minded. Who wants a nurse drawing their blood, administering their medications, placing a central line, etc. that knows nothing about her own profession? What about surgeons, obstetricians, psychologists, psychiatrists, etc.? No one would want an incompetent doctor treating them. The same standard applies to nursing and any other human service.

 

[Sagebee]

Getting mad because your teacher actually cares you guys learn and are good at what you do looks bad on your part I wouldn't want those people looking after me

 

[Narushima]

It sounds like your professor is making some effort to teach you, something you will find is not at all that common in research universities. I am a med student coming to the end of the first year and at this point I'm used to having teach myself most of the stuff - e.g. because my physiology course last term was partly delivered by a guy who could barely speak English and whose lecture notes were also incomprehensible I stopped attending his lectures and resorted to textbooks.

Frankly the only reason I attend medical school science lectures is because I don't want to sit in my room all day otherwise I would just study the material much faster by myself. In fact, I know a guy who actually doesn't attend any lectures (bar the clinical sessions) at all - he does a daily 9-7 at the library, and gets nothing but first class honours while actually keeping up with the material (unlike those of us who attend the lectures).

The whole lecture based university system, and schools for that matter, is antiquated and ineffective. A growing minority of medical schools around the world now employ the PBL system where lectures are minimal and most learning is self-directed, and the physicians they churn out tend to be much more independent and resourceful than those produced by conventional schools. A PBL style system based on computerized learning is probably inevitable for the educational system down to highschool.

But I digress.

Nursing isn't social justice warrior studies, and it doesn't seem to me a good idea to let hoardes of snowflakes deal with peoples lives.

 

[Uchiha Leader]

Depends on how the professor explained the physiological material to the class. The professor's lectures and examination materials may have appeared incoherent to the students. If that's the case, then its reasonable for students to question the professor's teaching methods. It's hard to say if your teacher was too tough or preparing you, I would need more information.

 

[The Work]

Nah, you good fam.

At least the class is not taught by some guy you can't understand while they're speaking.

 

[ChicagoJhawk]

Lol at them wanting a definition based test. Bunch of pussies

 

[Sakura Michiko]

Depends on how the professor explained the physiological material to the class. The professor's lectures and examination materials may have appeared incoherent to the students. If that's the case, then its reasonable for students to question the professor's teaching methods. It's hard to say if your teacher was too tough or preparing you, I would need more information.

It wasn't incoherent. On every slide she asked us if we understood or had questions. She didn't make the power point notes.They creators of the book made them so it was a summed up version of my book material. In our syllabus and the first few days of class she mentioned that the test would be based off the lecture power point notes, book information and the extra examples and real word scenarios she would tell us about in class.

 

[Inmate]

She's creative; I give her that